Articles | Volume 13, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1033-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1033-2020
Research article
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04 Mar 2020
Research article |  | 04 Mar 2020

Evaluation of cloud properties from reanalyses over East Asia with a radiance-based approach

Bin Yao, Chao Liu, Yan Yin, Zhiquan Liu, Chunxiang Shi, Hironobu Iwabuchi, and Fuzhong Weng

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Short summary
Due to the complex spatiotemporal and physical properties of clouds, their quantitative depictions in different atmospheric reanalysis datasets are still highly uncertain. A radiance-based evaluation approach is developed to evaluate the quality of cloud properties by directly comparing them with satellite radiance observations. ERA5 and CRA are found to have great capability in representing the cloudy atmosphere over East Asia, and MERRA-2 tends to slightly overestimate clouds over the region.